Letters from the President

Sep 30, 2020 WellBeing International Studies Repository – Providing Access to Useful Data and Important Studies

Posted at 13:56h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Education, Environment Well-being, Human Well-being, Letter from the President, One Health, WBI Studies Respository, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In 2020, there were reportedly over 5 billion unique mobile phone users worldwide (two-thirds of the world’s total population). Of these, 2.9 billion are using smartphones. These numbers translate to the growing availability of an extraordinary global marketplace for ideas and influence. Every smartphone user...

Aug 25, 2020 African Wildlife, Eco-Tourism & COVID

Posted at 18:28h In Animals, Articles, Land Management, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

The UN World Tourism Agency published a report in 2015 on the importance of wildlife tourism to national economies in Africa. About half of global wildlife tourism involves a visit to an African country, resulting in 6 million tourists a year visiting Sub-Saharan Africa (about...

Jun 30, 2020 Companion Animals in a Time of COVID-19

Posted at 04:40h In Articles, Companion Animals, Letter from the President, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

As we continue to struggle with the current Covid-19 pandemic, it appears that there has been an uptick across the world in the demand for companion animals. In the early phases of the pandemic, there was some concern that our companion animals might be a...

May 30, 2020 Global Dog Populations

Posted at 09:57h In Animals, Articles, Companion Animals, Letter from the President, Population, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In human health management, we generally must know the size of the problem before we can manage it successfully. This is also true of the management of animals such as dogs and cats. This letter will address what we know about the global dog population...

Apr 30, 2020 Sustainable Development & Trophy Hunting

Posted at 07:54h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Letter from the President, Sustainability/Biodiversity, WellBeing News, Wild Animals - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

Sustainability has become a popular term encompassing the notion that we need to promote and pursue policies that will allow future generations of humans to live and benefit from the wealth provided by the Earth. In 2015, the United Nations (UN) adopted the 2030 Agenda...

Mar 28, 2020 The State of Well-Being

Posted at 09:48h In Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, Well-being, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In February 2019, Wellbeing News carried an article discussing ideas relating to the state of well-being of People, Animals and the Environment. This article was followed by an item on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report in Tales of WellBeing. The World Happiness Report is issued...

Feb 26, 2020 Managing Cats for Cats, Wildlife & People

Posted at 09:31h In Articles, Companion Animals, Letter from the President, Resources, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

In the January 2020 issue of our Tales of WellBeing, we related the story of an outdoor cat project on Key Largo, Florida, called ORCAT – Ocean Reef Cat Project. To most people the project has been a big success, reducing the number of roaming outdoor...

Australian firefighter and wildlife | Photo credit: bbevrem

Jan 29, 2020 Australian Fires & Climate Change

Posted at 09:41h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Land Management, Letter from the President, One Health, Resources - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

For the past two months, the news has been full of stories about the fires in Australia. Australia has always had to deal with fires but recently they have been different in both magnitude and intensity. To date, with at least six weeks of fire...

Dec 25, 2019 WellBeing International 2019

Posted at 09:25h In Articles, Letter from the President, Resources, Well-being, WellBeing International, WellBeing News - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

This will be our last newsletter of 2019 and WBI would like to take this opportunity to thank you for following our activities through the first full year of our existence. This letter will provide a summary of our activities for 2019 and serve as...

Oct 29, 2019 Global Animal Protection

Posted at 10:06h In Animals, Articles, Letter from the President, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Resources, WellBeing News, Wildlife on Land - By Andrew Rowan, DPhil

September and October are traditionally heavy conference months across the world and that is true in the animal protection space as well. In the past seven weeks, WellBeing International has attended and spoken at five conferences in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Mombasa, Sydney and Dalian...